App Search finds and opens any app on your phone in a keystroke. Type a few letters and press Enter: the top result opens straight away. The same search box also does quick sums, finds your contacts, jumps to system settings and searches the web. Open any app in a keystroke • Results appear as you type, with the best match first • Press Enter or the search key on your keyboard to open the first result • Recent apps are waiting for you before you type anything • Finds work-profile apps too, marked "(work)" • Grid or list view, three icon sizes, and the panel at the centre or top of the screen More than apps • Calculator: type a sum like 128*4+16 and see the answer instantly, then copy it with one tap • Contacts (optional): find a person and call, message or WhatsApp them right from search • Settings shortcuts: type "wifi", "battery" or "bluetooth" to jump to the right settings page • Web search: search Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, the Play Store, YouTube or your own custom address, or open a typed web address directly Make search yours • Keywords: give any app your own nickname, like "bank" or "chat", so it always comes first • Favourites: keep the apps you use most at the top • Hide apps you never want to see in results • Add any app to your home screen, or uninstall it, from a long press • Back up your settings, favourites, hidden apps and keywords to a file, and restore them on a new phone Open it from anywhere • Quick Settings tile: open search from the notification shade • Home-screen search bar widget • Digital assistant: set App Search as your assistant app and open it by holding Home or swiping up from a corner Material 3 Expressive design • Light, dark or system theme, with a pure black option for OLED screens • Colours from your wallpaper on Android 12 and later, or pick Slate, Teal, Green, Purple, Orange or Pink • Made for phones, tablets and foldables, in portrait and landscape Your language Available in English, Arabic, Bengali, German, Spanish, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish and Vietnamese. Fast, light and private • The search screen has no ads. Ads appear only in the Settings and More apps screens • Your app list, keywords and history stay on your phone • Small app that opens instantly Permissions • Contacts (optional): asked only if you turn on contact search • Uninstall request: lets you uninstall an app from the long-press menu; Android always asks you to confirm • Internet: for web search, ads and the More apps page Questions or ideas? Write to us at [email protected]